This week, the European Union organised an airlift of 136 tonnes of emergency humanitarian cargo to the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip. The Tulipe association contributed 30 health product kits (1.6 tonnes, representing 12,000 medical treatments) via the Crisis and Support Centre.
This humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, which arrived in Egypt on 23 November, will be handed over to the Egyptian Red Crescent on the same day. In addition to the medicines supplied by Tulipe, it also includes “mobile storage units for logistics in the field, shelters and nutritional equipment”, explains Janez Lenarčič, European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, on X.
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Two new European humanitarian freights on 23 and 30 November
At the same time, France will also be making available “the amphibious helicopter carrier Dixmude, which will set sail at the beginning of the week to arrive in Egypt in the next few days” and “is configured for hospital support with a capacity of 40 beds” with “the aim of treating the most serious cases and enabling wounded civilians to be treated in nearby hospitals, if necessary”.
Two new EU humanitarian air bridge ✈️ in aid for #Gaza have reached 🇪🇬 this week with 136 tonnes of cargo, including 🇪🇺 mobile storage units for field logistics, shelter, nutrition & health supplies from our partners, medical & logistic equipment donated by 🇱🇺 and a 🇨🇵 donation. pic.twitter.com/yIpTZVQ6sG
– Janez Lenarčič (@JanezLenarcic) November 23, 2023
A response to the humanitarian emergency in Gaza
To respond to the humanitarian emergency in Gaza, an international humanitarian conference was organised on 9 November at the initiative of the French President. It raised €1 billion in contributions from participants. France announced that it would increase its humanitarian aid contribution to the people of Gaza to €100 million since the start of the crisis. According to the organisers, the conference made it possible to “forge a consensus on the need for an immediate, lasting and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a ceasefire”.
58 kits of health products already donated by Tulipe and PUI
More than 100 tonnes of humanitarian aid have already been delivered by air to meet the emergency health, food and energy needs of the civilian populations of Gaza, via the Egyptian Red Crescent. Three French humanitarian flights were used to deliver, via the Crisis and Support Centre, emergency medical kits comprising a batch of medicines and hospital equipment designed to reinforce emergency structures and capable of treating up to 500 seriously injured people; 58 trunks of medicines supplied by the Tulipe association and the NGO Première Urgence Internationale (PUI), each trunk enabling 500 patients to be treated (paediatrics, emergency and general medicine); 18 emergency respirators and 28 tonnes of food supplements as well as 70,000 drinking tablets donated by the company NUTRISET.
